“Each album has a different taste,” he says. “It’s been a beautiful 20 years of pressing the restart button,” he tells Apple Music.įonsi’s 10th full-length, VIDA, is a celebration-not just of his extraordinary success, but of contemporary pop as something truly global, genre-defying, and unhindered by perceived language gaps. For some two decades, the San Juan native was known as a master balladeer, opening up for Britney Spears and collaborating with generations of chart-dominating artists, including Demi Lovato, Juan Luis Guerra, and members of *NSYNC and Spice Girls. Before “Despacito” made him a household name globally, Luis Fonsi was already a star.